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“With membership at new lows and no electoral wins to their name, it’s time for the Greens to ditch the malignant narcissist who’s presided over its decline.”

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

And Stein's answer every single time this comes up?

"What about Gaza?"

She is literally an operative for Russia and the Republicans. This isn't even a meme or conspiracy theory, it's simply a plain truth.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Even if you assume she isn't a bad faith actor, she's still objectively failed to pass the one thing the world needs, the Green New Deal, and environmentalism is in the worst shape it's been in decades.

That's not all her fault, but her protest candidacy weirdness put Trump in office the first time instead of spending that time and effort on actual policy so...

Fuck off already?

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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Jill Stein doesn’t know how many members of the House there are in Congress. 600?!?!

There is a 100% chance that Trump couldn't name how many members there are in the house. I'd be shocked if he could list the branches of government without help.

note I'm not saying that's acceptable. But if that's your test for "is this a serious candidate" I hate to be the bearer of bad news...

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Jill Stein is both a terrible candidate and possibly a Russian agent. Even if I do align with much of the green parties stances and I live in a solidly blue state, I would never vote for her out of principle

[–] Scirocco@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Indeed. I might vote for some Greens down-ballot, but Stein is a stain on the party and its cause

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

The people have killed the green party in the womb.

[–] Strike1@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

"given that she herself has received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Google, Lockheed Martin, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and McKinsey." I don't see this information on the FEC website. Can anybody actually find this information? I sort this page by Amount, and it doesn't list these companies. It lists people:

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00505800&committee_id=C00581199&two_year_transaction_period=2016

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The writer of the article read it on Facebook. Fake news is the new standard.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure they’re referring to individual donations where those companies are the employer.

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